Management and Employee Development

Management and Employee Development

Over the course of many years, SWORPS has developed and delivered training to employees of social service agencies, enabling each agency to meet its unique job-training needs. The SWORPS staff can provide a full needs analysis in order study the agency requirements for training. SWORPS can work with agency subject matter expects to identify the best approaches to presentation of materials. SWORPS developers, programmers, and technical staff use cutting edge applications to find appropriate solutions for face-to-face, online, and blended training delivery.

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Past Online Training Projects

Child Abuse Reporting Training for Department of Children’s Services

Training that was developed and designed by SWORPS trainers and is hosted by SWORPS has been made available through the state of Tennessee Department of Children’s Service website for many years. An average of over one thousand users have utilized this training each month to learn the best way to report any observed or suspected child abuse.

Online Workshop Training in Military Social Work

One of the training opportunities available through the CSW LMS is a series that provides continuing education in the field of Military Social Work. SWORPS is hosting and supporting eight video workshops through the LMS.

Neuroscience Training for Continuing Education

SWORPS has worked with the College of Social Work to develop and host a number of training series that utilize video and assessments to provide continuing education contact hours for social workers in the field. Terri Combs-Orme developed the Neuroscience series. Combs-Orme is The Urban Child Institute Endowed Professor at the College of Social Work.

Civil Rights Training

The Civil Rights Training was developed in close cooperation with the Tennessee Department of Human Services in order to train state workers on the need to meet federal requirements for serving clients in a manner that respects individual rights in accordance with the United States and Tennessee law. It has been used to train as many as 8,000 state employees in the course of a year. This course utilizes video segments as well as testing in order to assess user learning outcomes.

Literacy Information and Communications Services Training

SWORPS prepared training developed by their subject matter experts from the Center for Literacy, Education and Employment for internet-based delivery. Users input observations at the beginning of the course. Later, during the training these observations were recalled for further consideration. These trainings targeted users who work with adults with learning disabilities and were used with a Moodle Learning Management system.

College of Social Work Learning Management System

SWORPS has developed its own customized Learning Management System that allows for simple registration of users and access to a robust system that presents the training, tracks user participation and assessment results, and delivers certificates of completion for the users as well as reports and records for participating agencies.